The Security Blog From Gridinsoft
Lorenz Ransomware Penetrates Company Networks through Mitel VoIP Products
Security firm Arctic Wolf has warned that Lorenz ransomware is exploiting a critical vulnerability in Mitel MiVoice VoIP devices to…
Ransomware publishes data stolen from Cisco
The Yanluowang hack group published data stolen from Cisco back in May 2022. Cisco representatives acknowledged that the data leak…
0-day Vulnerability in WordPress BackupBuddy Plugin Attacked Over 5 million Times
Wordfence analysts have discovered that a fresh 0-day vulnerability in the popular WordPress plugin, BackupBuddy, which has been installed about…
North Korean Group Lazarus Attacks Energy Companies
A new malware campaign by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus has been discovered, which was active from February to…
MooBot Botnet Attacks D-Link Routers
Experts have discovered that the MooBot botnet, built on the Mirai IoT malware, attacks vulnerable D-Link routers using a combination…
End of an era: Twitter disabled SMS in most countries
Twitter said it disabled option of using SMS with the text of new tweets last week due to security issues. The function was disabled in all countries, except for “several”…
Sindhi Language Symbols Disable iPhone and iPad
Users found that a messages with certain characters in the Sindhi language symbols (used primarily in India and Pakistan) disable OS 13.4.1 and crash the iPhone and iPad. A “text…
Criminals hacked more than 60 ad servers to distribute malware
Confiant experts found that in the past nine months (since August 2019), unknown criminals have hacked more than 60 ad servers in order to inject their malicious ads onto a…
For iOS was discovered a new exploit, with the help of which China traced the Uyghurs
Specialists of the information security company Volexity discovered a new exploit for iOS called Insomnia. According to the researchers, the malware associated with the efforts of the Chinese authorities to…
Conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creating coronavirus
Microsoft founder Bill Gates fell victim of fake theories that he was allegedly involved in the creation of the coronavirus COVID-19. In fact, conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creation…
GitHub warned users about phishing attack
Representatives of the GitHub web service warned users of a massive phishing attack called Sawfish. Recently, users more and more often receive phishing emails with fake warnings about suspicious activity…
More than 700 malicious libraries detected in RubyGems repository
Information security researchers at ReversingLabs reported the discovery of 725 malicious libraries that stole the contents of the clipboard in the official RubyGems repository. RubyGems is a package manager for…
Hoaxcalls botnet attacks Grandstream devices
Palo Alto Networks experts warn that the Hoaxcalls botnet attacks the recently fixed vulnerability in the Grandstream UCM6200 series devices. The Hoaxcalls botnet is built on the source code of…
Due to the pandemic Google developers re-enabled FTP support for Chrome
Most recently, I wrote that Firefox developers plan to remove from their browser support for the FTP protocol, as consider it to be unsafe. At the same time, Google re-enabled…
COVID-19 pandemic raised interest in pirated sites
Currently, hundreds of millions of people remain at home and occur global changes in the Internet traffic trends. In particular, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, raised interest in pirated sites.…
Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so criminals would not do it
The well-known IS journalist Brian Krebs drew attention to an interesting fact: this week Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so that criminals would not do it. The sum of transaction…
NASA staff faces exponential increase in number of hacker attacks
Representatives of the space agency said that recently NASA staff and home-based agency contractors suffered from increase in the number of hacker attacks, and their devices are constantly trying to…